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Offering more than 477 million suggestions for the online search “New York hotel” is not particularly helpful for a baffled tourist, but Google will try to improve recommendations with its purchase of Frommer’s travel guides.

Google is expected to integrate Frommer’s into its search and map features to provide users with a qualitative assessment of the hotels and attractions in an area, as well as the quantity of listings traditionally it has made available. The online search group said yesterday that it would buy the travel brand from John Wiley & Sons, a publisher of academic books, for an undisclosed